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US targets oil and natural gas industry's role in global warming with new rule on methane emissions

US targets oil and natural gas industry's role in global warming with new rule on methane emissions

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration on Saturday issued a final rule aimed at reducing methane emissions, targeting the U.S. oil and natural gas industry for its role in global warming as President Joe Biden seeks to advance his climate legacy.
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At COP28 meeting, oil companies pledge to combat methane. Environmentalists call it a "smokescreen"

At COP28 meeting, oil companies pledge to combat methane. Environmentalists call it a "smokescreen"

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Fifty oil companies representing nearly half of global production have pledged to reach near-zero methane emissions and end routine flaring in their operations by 2030, the president of this year's United Nations cl
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Don't ignore us: Backed by pope, poorer nations use COP28 summit to press rich world on climate

Don't ignore us: Backed by pope, poorer nations use COP28 summit to press rich world on climate

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Countries once colonized by empires are striking back on global warming — and they have the pope's blessing. Leaders of developing nations jumped into Saturday's high-level speeches at the U.N.
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At first-ever health day at UN climate summit, Canadian doctors push for action

At first-ever health day at UN climate summit, Canadian doctors push for action

TORONTO — As global leaders prepare to meet for the first dedicated health day at a UN climate summit, Canadian doctors plan to use the platform to push for a new federal office dedicated to addressing the health effects of climate change.
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US joins in other nations in swearing off coal power to clean the climate

US joins in other nations in swearing off coal power to clean the climate

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United States committed Saturday to the idea of phasing out coal power plants, joining 56 other nations in kicking the coal habit that's a huge factor in global warming. U.S.
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Thousands of trees will be felled in Vancouver's Stanley Park due to moth infestation

Thousands of trees will be felled in Vancouver's Stanley Park due to moth infestation

VANCOUVER — The quiet of Stanley Park’s forests has been splintered as chainsaws roar in a multi-year project to remove about one quarter of the trees that make up what's considered a Vancouver jewel.
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US Navy plans to raise jet plane off Hawaii coral reef using inflatable cylinders

US Navy plans to raise jet plane off Hawaii coral reef using inflatable cylinders

HONOLULU (AP) — The U.S. Navy plans to use inflatable cylinders to lift and roll a jet plane off a coral reef in Hawaii before removal from the ocean waters where the aircraft crashed on Nov. 20. Rear Adm.
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Bolivia's Indigenous women climbers fear for their future as the Andean glaciers melt

Bolivia's Indigenous women climbers fear for their future as the Andean glaciers melt

EL ALTO, Bolivia (AP) — When they first started climbing the Andes peaks, they could hear the ice crunching under their crampons.
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Takeaways from Friday's events at UN climate conference known as COP28

Takeaways from Friday's events at UN climate conference known as COP28

Friday was a day for speechmaking at the United Nations annual climate conference, known as COP28, as heads of state each gave short speeches to deliver their views on the planet's climate crisis, what their nation is doing and what they think others
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Michigan regulators approve $500M pipeline tunnel project under channel linking 2 Great Lakes

Michigan regulators approve $500M pipeline tunnel project under channel linking 2 Great Lakes

Michigan officials approved a $500 million plan Friday to encase in a protective tunnel a portion of an aging oil pipeline that runs beneath a channel connecting two Great Lakes, leaving just one more regulatory hurdle for the contentious project.
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